Like many of you,MOTUS has many Christmas duties to discharge in 3 different cities, so Im going to be very busy. Because of that, and perhaps a certain degree of war-weariness, I need to restrain my posting time this week.

I will be posting an open thread topic, along with a recipe of the day. Heres your assignment:

So lets start with appetizers today and work our way through the buffet line as the week progresses.

Heres one of my favorite, easy-peasy (although no peas were actually harmed in the making of this dish) pre-prandial snacks: Smoked trout or whitefish pate. If you cant score any smoked fish at your local grocery, fish market, Sams or Costco theres always the intertoobz.

In a small bowl, combine the cream cheese, feta cheese and onions. Stir in cranberries. Spread about 1/2 cup mixture over each tortilla and roll up tightly. Wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Cut each roll-up into 10 slices. Yield: 40 appetizers.

Someone brought this to an office food day recently, could not be easier, was delicious (maybe a bit lame for those who fancy themselves as “real cooks”): Take an 8 oz brick of cream cheese, a jar of Dickinson’s Sweet N Hot Pepper And Onion Relish (available at WalMart), and set out with a box of little crackers (she used some vegetable-flavored ones that were similar to wheat thins). Let the cream cheese sit until it is softer, pour the relish over, provide a knife for spreading.

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